Places kdoyle Wants to Go

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

London's old-school healing garden.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Known as "Toronto's Flatiron."

The remains of a once-famous hotel that also acted as an artist colony.

A space-age 1950s pavilion on a secluded path is full of Toronto history surprises.

This "Palace of Purification" has made many film appearances as a dark and sinister headquarters.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

A miniature representation of Canadian cities and landmarks in incredible—and sometimes hilarious—detail.